the garuru platoon

GARURU PLATOON

The Garuru Platoon came to Earth to defeat the Keroro Platoon and finish the mission that they failed to do; conquer Earth. They came close to completing the mission, but the Keroro Platoon managed to defeat them. Then, they revealed that they were just supposed to test the abilities of Keroro Platoon and left.

The Garuru Platoon got a new member (Pururu) and was given the mission of investigating the crime of Gunpla and desserts stealing. They defeated the Keroro Platoon Double and paid a visit to Keroro Platoon after that.

Garuru Platoon appeared again and helped Keroro Platoon by attacking ZZZ, a monster who was going to destroy the Earth. However the attacks weren't strong enough to defeat ZZZ and the spaceship of Garuru Platoon was hit by ZZZ's attack. Garuru also demonstrated how to read ZZZ's name without biting his tongue.

The Garuru Platoon make a cameo appearance during the end credits of the 3rd Keroro Gunso Movie.

First Lieutenant Garuru (ガルル中尉, Garuru Chūi)

Giroro's elder brother. He, much like Giroro, is a straight man and follows military rules strictly. Unlike Giroro, he does not fire his weapons in barrages; instead, he is the best sniper in the whole army, with a devastating one-shot-one-kill style. He came to earth with his team to replace Keroro's (not too successful) team. His name is taken from garuru, the Japanese word for a growl. His emblem resembles an upsidedown "A" with a line going down the middle.

Garuru is a Keronian S-rank sniper, a first lieutenant of the Keron Army, the leader of the Garuru Platoon and Giroro's older brother. The Keron Army sent the Garuru Platoon to replace the Keroro Platoon in their mission to conquer Pekopon. Garuru defeated his brother in a one-on-one gun match, but was later defeated in a rematch. Thanks to the Keroro Platoon's friendship and united power, the Garuru Platoon was defeated. It was however strongly hinted that Garuru's true mission was merely to test the abilities of the Keroro Platoon.

Garuru and his platoon appear again to face a robotic replica of the Keroro Platoon. He and his platoon return once more to aid the Keroro Platoon in defeating ZZZ.

Later on Garuru returns to earth for a short visit during his vacation. Besides a box of goodies for the rest of the platoon he brings a certain item to Giroro on behalf of his father, a fast-growing sweet potato, something Giroro wanted for Natsumi. However it quickly grows into a large, flying sweet potato-like monster and the brothers have to team up to bring it down. This is obiously a ploy by their father to teach them a lesson and how to work together. In the end Powered Natsumi shows up, helping Garuru defeat the potato with her beam sabers, as it is immune to guns and such ballistic weapons, and Garuru appears impressed by the girl. During the fight with the potato, there is a flashback from Giroro and Keroro's childhoood where we see a younger, presumably teenage Garuru defending his younger brother and friend against two bullies intending to take over their secret base, by allowing himself to be beat up (as evidence). Another interesting detail is that the younger Garuru wears the same kind of belt as present day Giroro, with a rectangular buckle.

Garuru is a light purple adult Keronian. His eyes are hidden by a yellow visor and the center of his dark purple hat points downward with a point at the end. There's some speculation about the color of his eyes, in some manga based art he appears with red eyes. He wears a weapons belt across his right shoulder and the left side of his waist with a round buckle. His symbol is a red, upside down "A" with a downward line at the center.

Garuru is the older brother of Giroro. He and his brother have a slight rivalry, but it seems like Garuru is willing to really bend the rules to make sure Giroro gets to stay on Pekopon and complete the invasion. On more than one occasion he has tampered with evidence to make the Keroro platoon seem more competent or their Pekoponian allies (more specifically Natsumi) seem much more dangerous.

Garuru carries a large arsenal of weapons. The most common of them is the State-of-the-Art Sniper Rifle. During the Keroro Platoon's counter-attack, he made use of the GundamNu Gundam's Fin Funnels. RX78-GP02's Atomic Bazooka and Shield, as well as the

Garuru is unable to use chopsticks properly.

Garuru's use of the weaponry and equipment of the RX78-GP02, is a nod to his seiyuu Akio Ohtsuka, who portrayed Anavel Gato in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083.

Private First Class Taruru (タルル上等兵, Taruru Jōtōhei)

Tamama's "apprentice". During his days as a cadet, he came to visit Tamama, and wound up causing trouble by revealing how Tamama had bragged about being the real brains of the squad, and what Tamama "really" thought of his comrades. Taruru eventually joined the army, and became part of Garuru's team. During the Garuru Platoon invasion, he defeated Tamama, and put shame onto his master. He ranks higher than Tamama, fueling Tamama's already existing jealously of Taruru. He is put back in his place as a student by Tamama when he acquires lent strength by a 'Legendary Super Rhinoceros Beetle' . His trademark attacks are "Taruru Genocide" and "Taruru Genocide GX". His emblem is a fukushi mark (old driver's mark), opposite to the Tamama's new driver's mark emblem. He often ends his sentences with 'su' which is an abbreviation of 'desu'.

Taruru used to be Tamama's apprentice, and still calls him "master," or "senpai." Taruru was more clumsy than Tamama in the past. Taruru is a blue Keronian tadpole. His symbol is an orange and yellow raindrop shaped emblem, the mark of an "old driver" in Japan, but he matured faster. He now has adult features instead of tadpole features. Taruru first appeared to see if all the rumors about the Keroro Platoon was true, revealing what Tamama told him about the platoon. In the anime he also appeared a couple of times with his childhood friend Karara, forming a duo of mischievous tadpoles. Despite Taruru's clumsiness in the past, he had become very skilled when training in the Garuru Platoon and has skills that exceeded Tamama's, defeating him in a face-off. He then captures Momoka and Paul, then later on also captures Mois. After Keroro encourages his platoon to rise Tamama, after receiving power from the Super Rhinoceros Beetle, and Tamama returns for a rematch and Taruru is defeated.

Attacks

• Taruru Genocide: Taruru shoots light-blue beams from his eyes.
• Shining Taruru Genocide EX: A powered-up version on Taruru Genocide.
• Taruru Genocide GX: A a far more powered-up version of Taruru Genocide EX.
• Taruru Genocide DX: A powered-up version of Taruru Genocide GX.
• Taruru Ball: Taruru uses energy to make a small energy ball that he throws at the enemy.

When an explosion occurs and Taruru is even remotely close to the blast, he almost always gets caught up in it.

Lance Corporal Zoruru (ゾルル兵長, Zoruru Heichō)

A fellow ninja, previous comrade/rival of Corporal Dororo, and part of the Garuru platoon. The left side of his body is robotic thanks to a long-ago feud with Dororo, and seeks revenge for this incident. For this reason, he joins the Garuru platoon. When Dororo tells him that he forgot who he was, he leaves in a huff. Details of Zoruru's left side of his body show him having a metallic arm with a thumb that can be extended into a sword. His emblem is a three-pronged shuriken.

Zoruru is the assassin of the Garuru Platoon. He is known for his grudge against Dororo, and seems to be completely focused on getting revenge. During his platoon's invasion on Earth, he destroyed Mutsumi and Koyuki, as an attempt to provoke Dororo to come forth; however, Dororo revived them later by using his ninja powers to stab their ship. Zoruru finally meets up with Dororo at the end of the fight between the Keroro Platoon and the Garuru Platoon. Zoruru reveals that he never held much interest in the invasion of Earth to begin with, only wishing to seek out Dororo in order to fulfill his revenge. Sadly, Dororo holds no recollection as to whom Zoruru is and desparately tries to remember his name, but fails. This causes great disappointment to Zoruru, as he wasn't even recognized by the very character who is well known to be ignored by many and he slowly fades away. When the Garuru Platoon leaves, Zoruru is in a position which is seen many times, Dororo's trauma switch.

After this episode, there is a running gag for him to be forgotten in one form or the other; such as when he is the only one left out without an introduction in the special chapter of volume 13.

In the Tokyopop version of volume 10 of Sgt. Frog, the letter R and K were written backwards whenever he spoke. This was however dropped with the following volume and his brief appareance in volume 13.

In chapter 134 (manga), Zoruru travels to Earth to finally get his sought-after battle with Dororo. He sneaks into the Keroro Platoon's invasion meeting and glues the rest of the platoon to their chairs before going for Dororo. In the battle Dororo is forced to resort to his special armor, but in the end Keroro barges in and distracts Dororo by falling on his head, thus allowing Zoruru to defeat him. Zoruru is then more or less scared off by Keroro actually standing up for his platoon mate, demanding to know what Zoruru is doing there. Of course, this is revealed to have been done by some dark subconscious part of Keroro and he has no recollection of it later. Zoruru returns to Keron, thinking that he would resume the fight someday because it wasn't really fair.

Zoruru is a gray Keronian frog whose left side has been replaced with metal implants. His left arm has a retractable blade, which is his primary weapon. He has an artificial eye in the place of his right eye, and the entire left side of his face is covered by a metal plate. When he was a child he still had both eyes and their coloration was the same as his one artificial eye.

As a child Zoruru went to the same school as Dororo. In a flashback he is shown attempting to make contact with Zeroro, calling him "Exchange Student", presumably Zeroro went to a different school before this. But just as Zeroro is about to turn to Zoruru, Keroro shows up and Zoruru is quickly ignored and even forgotten.

Relationships

Zoruru appears to be a bit of a lone wolf, though he does follow orders as long as they don't go against his own goals in life. When given the opportunity he has no objection to running off unauthorized to fight his childhood rival, Zeroro.

Zoruru has a relationship, even if it's rather one-sided, with Dororo, or Zeroro as he calls him that seems to go way back. From recent developments in the manga it all seems to have started when Zoruru is ignored in favor of the more outgoing and noisy Keroro. This seems to have made Zoruru determined to teach Dororo once and for all that he is someone to be noticed and remembered, even if he has to beat him up to do so.

Recruit Tororo (トロロ新兵, Tororo Shinpei)

He is a young hacker who used to try to outhack Kururu back in military school, but failed every time. He was recruited after basically disabling the Keron Force by hacking into their networks. During the Garuru invasion, he was able to beat Kururu in hacking, but was put in his place when Kururu realized that Tororo was using a poorly copied hacking system that he made eons ago, and hacked it. In the anime, Kururu sent every available mech he had ever made, and sent them to attack Tororo's computer room . He also has about the same personality as Kururu, except he cannot keep cool under pressure like his rival. Like Kururu, he started his years of computer maintenance and hacking earlier in his life resulting in his skills right now. Tororo is still immature and does not think anyone is better than him. Kururu proves that wrong though. Ever since the invasion, Tororo has developed both a grudge and a fear of Kururu. His emblem is a circle with three pegs coming out of it.

Age: 7-9 Years (Earth years) (youngest member of the Garuru Platoon)
Seiyu: Kappei Yamaguchi

Tororo is the hacker of the Garuru Platoon who thinks he's better than everyone else. He is a red Keronian tadpole that bears a striking resemblance to baby Kururu and his symbol is a circle with three bumps. He hacked into the Keroro Platoon's systems during the Garuru Platoon's invasion. Kururu faced him, but was (for the first time in his unsettling existence) stumped; Tororo was one problem Kururu could not fix. Keroro gave his soldiers a pep talk, Dororo threw an energy shuriken into the Garuru Platoon's base, freeing Paul, Momoka, Koyuki, and Mutsumi; and Kururu hacked Tororo's base, making all his mechas, which were originally sent to attack the Keroro Platoon's base, attack Tororo's base.

With his glasses and ship destroyed, a computer falls on Tororo's face and he is knocked out, while Kururu announces that he has 'Gotten rid of the annoying thing'. During the encounter with the Keroro Platoon Double, he mistakes Kururu Double for the real Kururu and, driven by anger and the thirst of revenge, Tororo wipes out Kururu Double, along with the rest of the Keroro Platoon Double and even almost the Garuru Platoon in the process.

Chief Medic Pururu (プルル看護長, Pururu Kangocho)

The newest and only female member of the Garuru Platoon. She falls in love with Keroro and when meeting him in person, Keroro fell for Pururu. She wields large syringes as well as a wing pack and assists Garuru in battle. Her emblem is a heart.

Pururu appears in the series as the most recent and only female member of the Garuru Platoon, a chief medic and expert nurse, and a childhood friend to Sergeant Keroro, Corporal Giroro, and Lance Corporal Dororo. She has an energetic, down-to-earth, and somewhat strict and stubborn personality, but is also nonviolent and mature, unlike most of the major characters of the series. Pururu's appearance consists of violet skin, a pink cap with a yellow-and-pink heart symbol, and large purple eyes. When she was a young child, the cap was flat and had a light pink flower on it, but is now pointed up on both sides, giving a catgirl-ear-impression to her head (she is sometimes shown with a violet afro wig). Her tadpole appearance might make you think she's as young as Tamama or Tororo, but it seems like this is the way Mine Yoshizaki draws adult females. Her cute looks and charming demeanor makes anyone to feel attached to her, notably the young Giroro and the current Keroro. Pururu also has a very mothering (some might call it bossy) personality. She is not above throwing her weight around to get what she wants, especially when the Keroro and Garuru platoons are involved.

Pururu was part of Keroro's friendship alliance alongside Giroro and Zeroro. They hung out in an underground club house. They lived under the wisdom of their elder friend Joriri who helped them fight back against bullies and other conflicts. She appeared in the short for Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess named "Chibi Kero: Secret of the Kero Ball", in which she and the rest of the alliance are trapped within a prototype Kero Ball until freed by Kururu.

She graduated from the Keron Military Academy, alongside her childhood friends under the rank of nurse, and later chief medic. However, in the manga it's said that she first worked for a civilian corporation before she joined the Keron Forces, inspired by her three childhood friends.During the Garuru Platoon's promotions, she joined them with the first mission of investigating the stolen items desired by the Clone Keroro Platoon. She is currently promoted to the task of giving the Keronians medical check-ups and injections.

Pururu was the childhood friend of Keroro, Giroro, and Zeroro (currently Dororo). At the time, Giroro had a crush on Pururu until growing out of it. After meeting a more mature and beautiful Pururu, Keroro develops an amorous crush for her, causing a rivalry between her and Angol Mois, another one of Keroro's hopeful lovers. She is currently partnered with Chiruyo Tsukigami.

Pururu uses large syringes as both weapons and medical tools. For combat purposes, the syringes can be used for close range offense and can discharge energy beams. For medical purposes, it simply records the health of those it injects. An after effect fills those injected with slight ecstacy. She also has access to the ability to take on a human form, as revealed in episode 180. Pururu is also one of the few characters to effectively control Kururu.

Her trauma switch turns on when someone calls her Oba-chan. (Oba-chan can either mean auntie, in an affectionate way, or old lady... in a not so affectionate way)